Halloween Friendly: Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cake Recipe

If you need a yummy idea for a lovely fall/Halloween friendly pumpkin recipe that's sure to please, here is a Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cake recipe. Alas, I didn't inherited my mothers creative culinary skills, so I have to follow someone else's recipe. I credit this to letsdishrecipes.com.

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Russian Eggplant recipe

I wanted to torture myself a little more by posting a recipe for another tasty dish that I can't eat right now.  It was also part of the Russian food feast that my friends and I had.  You can check out this post if you're curious as to what I'm talking about, along with another yummy recipe.  This is a great dish for vegetarians and meat lovers who are wary of vegetarian dishes.  As a former vegetarian, I appreciate the "meatiness" of eggplant.  It's a rather hearty vegetable that has more oomph to it that should appeal to all types of diets.  Please don't ask me if this is truly a Russian dish, it might be a misnomer.  However, I did find out that sour cream type substance is popular in Russian dishes and so are onions.  Maybe there is a sliver of authenticity? (Pic: allrecipes.com)

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Black Russian Cake Recipe

Although my friends and I bond over many things, what we have in common the most is food.  Perhaps it's a way to escape the realities of life, but we enjoy stuffing our faces and then veg out in front of a TV and watch a movie.  To make our food feasts more entertaining, we have a cultural theme and try to match the movie to it.  Most recently we did a Russian food feast.  It stemmed from wanting pierogi, which we later figured out was actually Polish.  In any case, one of the items we feasted on was black Russian cake.  In reality it's not Russian either, but Kahlua is involved, and they do like to name their beverages with the word Russian in it, so why not cake?  In fact originally the recipe is supposedly off the Kahlua website, although I procured it from food.com.  Irregardless of where the recipe originated from, it's to die for.  It's moist (the only time the word moist doesn't sound gross) and decadent, but with the ingredients included, it would be pretty hard not to be.  I didn't wan't to deprive the world from yummy goodness so here's the recipe.  (Note: there is alcohol in the recipe, but the baking process burns off the alcohol content- you won't get drunk from eating it, unless you're drunk on chocolatey heaven).  Now I'm hungry, gah!  (Pic: Chef Petunia/food.com)

For the black Russian cake recipe, click the link.